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Kris Drumm, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist is the Founder and Director of A Healing Space. Kris has been working as a healer, spiritual guide, facilitator, group worker, advocate, program developer, trainer and activist since 1980. Throughout her career as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and healer, Kris has specialized in working with survivors of trauma and abuse, and with people with low self-esteem, anxiety and depression. She recently left her position as Staff Therapist at SunServe Social Services where she worked with LGBT adults and youth, to dedicate herself to private practice at A Healing Space.

Certified by the Wellness Institute in advanced Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, Kris continues to serve all with a “Magic Heart”. Kris is an affirmation artist, poet, writer, sculptor and drummer who believes in the power of the mind to change, create, and direct the conditions of our lives. Kris has developed the program “Positive Energy on Demand” and the highly acclaimed My Big S Self Affirmation Cards . Kris is also a Certified Usui Reiki Practitioner (2nd Degree).

As a poet, Kris has performed her prose poetry at women’s music festivals and had her poem “Mother Beat”, put to music and performed by Ubaka Hill on the album “Shapeshifters” by Ladyslipper Productions. Kris is a published author of articles on Social Work with groups, and working with elder LGBT people.

Rev. Dr. Grace Telesco is an ordained Interfaith Minister (although the word INNER FAITH seems more fitting) and is Co-Founder/Spiritual Director and presiding Clergy at the Darshan Center for Spiritual Evolution. Rev. G works with Kris Drumm at a Healing Space and co leads workshops and intensives there.

Rev. G facilitates Sacred Celebrations, ceremonies, weddings, funerals, transitioning rituals, and offers guidance on "inner faith" exploration. Rev. G is also a Professor of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice in South Florida and is affiliated with and a regular guest minister at the Metaphysical Chapel of South Florida

Rev. Dr. Grace Telesco received a Ph.D. in Social Work from Fordham University and graduated from The New Seminary for Interfaith Studies in New York and was ordained in 2011 at Riverside Church in Manhattan. Rev. G has been inducted into the Order of Universal Interfaith and has taken a vow of Sacred Service. Rev. G is also an active member of the United Communities of Spirit and a World Alliance of Interfaith Clergy. Rev. G. is currently pursuing a Masters in Holistic Theology from the American Institute of Holistic Theology.

Rev. G has been initiated into the Sanyassi Order in the Hindu Tradition under the lineage of her Guru H.H. Sri Swami Jyotirmayanda (Disciple of H.H. Sri Swami Shivananda) and adheres to his philosophy of Do Good! Be Good and is a Certified Usui Reiki Practitioner (2nd Degree).